mũtharaba

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili msalaba, from Arabic صَلِيب‎ (ṣalīb).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòðàɾàβáꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.

Noun

mũtharaba class 3 (plural mĩtharaba)

  1. cross

References
  1. “mũtharaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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